Another "chances" thread...

Colleges and Universities A-Z Johns Hopkins University
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<p>My rank is horrid, this I know. Top Quarter of my class (something like 21% out of a class of a thousand).</p>

<p>SAT: 1520 (740V / 780M)
SATIIs: 700W, Registered to take MathIIC, Biology-M, and Physics in October.</p>

<p>AP Courseload:</p>

<p>AP Human Geograpy (10)
AP English III (11)
AP Chemisty II (11)
AP Comp Sci A (11)
AP US History (11)
AP Latin III (11)
AP English IV (12)
AP Biology II (12)
AP Physics C (12)
AP Calculus BC (12)
AP Comp Sci AB (12)
AP Latin IV (12)</p>

<p>That's all I can think of right now.</p>

<p>ECs:
-Nat'l Latin Honor Society
-Latin Club (President)
-Selected Member of UIL Science Team
-Students Organizing Community Outreach (Officer)
-Technology / Scientific Research Club (We build robots and mechanisms and enter them in competitions).
-Computer Club ( Responsible for organization of Fundraisers)
-Math Honor Society (Ironic as math isn't a strong point for me) :P.
-NHS
-Active member of the Turkish-American Association of North Texas (We host a huuuuge TurkFest anually and do volunteer work to promote cultural integration deep in the heart of Texas).
-SAT / Science Tutor
-Started a Film Productions "organization." My twin, my best friend and I wanted to make some cash and have fun in the process so we started to film, edit, and produce DVDs for people (eg. Our largest project was a compilation video for a local Volleyball team that took the gold medal in the International Junior Olympics). I don't know if this counts or not.</p>

<p>Work:
I work a 15-20 hour week on schooldays and a full 40 hour week during summers when I'm not attending summer school to get required credits out of the way. I started out doing Office Monkey type jobs (Filing, Data entry) but moved up to Income Tax Preparation. On my resume it appears as something along the lines of:</p>

<p>-IT/Networking Specialist, (Liberty Tax Services, USATax)
-Technical Specialist (Kaizen Foods)
-TURANT Turk Festival (Volunteer work)
-Co-Founder/Media Technician, Three Brothers Productions. Responsible for web sites, video editting, etc.</p>

<p>Trilingual:
English, Turkish, and Spanish (I took Spanish up to Level III in High School. I also work with spanish speaking customers on a regular basis. I don't know if I can really call this fluent or not, but I manage to interact and converse with them and get their taxes done =) ).</p>

<p>Also, I skipped a year of high school latin (went from Latin I -> Latin III AP) via Credit By Exam test. I was considering majoring in classics / biology, so I hope this will be a boon. I've heard wonderful things about the JHU classics program.</p>

<p>Aaand that's about it. Thank you for your input, whatever it may be.</p>

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<p>yes, rank/gpa is the only thing holding you back, but you really shine everywhere else. I think you have a descent shot!</p>

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<p>Thank you, it's good to hear. Yeah... I missed 17 days of school last year because of some extreme sickness (that's 2 days from being kicked out). That and I took a lot of useless classes in my freshman/sophomore year because my middle school and junior high councelors were idiots.</p>

<p>"What do you like to do?"
"I work / play on the computer a lot."
"Oh, excellent!"</p>

<p>Thus I took Webmastering, Desktop Publishing, Introduction to Business Computing rather than say AP World History and that kind of thing. My parents are immigrants so they were clueless to the gpa system, just like I was.</p>

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<p>Ok, not to make excuses, but get in good contact with one of the admissions counselors from your area and let them know the reasons for your "good" but not "great" rank/gpa... you have everything else to get accepted :)</p>